Tray for glasses.



PATENTED NOV. 8, 1904..

A. LANGE.

TRAY FOR GLASSES.

APPLICATION snmpy JULY 17, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented November 8, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

ARTHUR LANGE, OF DRESDEN, GERMANY.

TRAY Fon` GLASSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part lof Letters Patent N o. 774,479, dated November 8, 1904. Application iiled July 17, 1903. Serial No. 165,942. (No model.)

To all wiz/0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR LANGE, a subject of the King of Saxony, residing at Dresden, Saxony, German Empire, have invented an Improvement in Trays for Glasses, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a carrier or tray for glasses by means of which they are protected from accident during transit, and in carrying out my invention I employ a tray comprising a base and an overlying plate connected thereto and between which the bases of the glasses or goblets are securely held in such a manner that the glasses and the tray are held together in a uniform or complete device and may be moved about as desired or held in a slanting or other position without the glasses falling out or over or touching each other. The bases of the glasses may be frictionally or yieldingly held, between the 'base of the tray and the overlying spaced-apart plate by means of elastic paddings or springs or a resilient padding of felt, india-rubber, or the like applied to the under surface of the said plate.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of a carrier or tray for glasses, illustrating the present invention; and Fig. 2 isaplan of the same.

The base a of the tray is most conveniently provided with aresilient padding of fabric, felt, india-rubber, or like material, and above the base a I employ a plate c, mounted on and connected to or integral with a longitudinal bar d, so that there is an appreciable space between the plates c and the base a on either side of the bar (l. The overlying plate cis provided with slots e and on its under side and adjacent to said slots and at opposite sides thereof with springs f or resilient paddings of fabric, felt, india-rubber, or the like.

The distance of the baseer of the tray from the overlying plate c is only sufficient to receive the base of a glass in a convenient man# ner. The spring f or resilient padding or both these parts simultaneously cause a narrowing of the spaces between the base fr and the overlying plate c to such an extent that the bases of the glasses can be inserted only by the employment of a slight force. The

compressed springs or the resilient paddings hold the bases of the glasses between them by the yielding clamping action resulting from their constant slight force must also be employed to remove the bases of the glasses from the tray.

Trays as above described may conveniently be employed as shelves in china-closets, glassrack's, or the like andmay be removed bodily ,with the glasses/and carried to the place Where they are to be used.V

It is an essential feature of my invention that there be provided'such a small space between the base of the tray and its overlying plate that the inserted bases of the glasses will just fill the same, and thereby making it impossible for the glasses to fall over or out or touch each other.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a tray for glasses, the combination with a base and a layer of resilient material lying directly upon said base, of an overlying plate secured in a spaced-apart position to said base and having slots provided in the edges thereof, and devices of resilient material securedto the under side of said plate and at either side of each of said slots and between which and the said layer of resilient material bases of glasses are adapted to be received and held in position with their stems passing through said slots, substantially as set forth.

2. In a tray for glasses, the combination with a base a and a layer of resilient material, such as felt, india-rubber and the like secured directly to said base, of an overlying plate chaving slots in'oorrespondingly-opposite positions and along opposite edges, a longitudinal lbar (l centrally disposed between said slots and connected respectively to the base a and plate c, and resilient clamping devices f secured to the under side of the plate c at opposite sides of each of said slots and between which and said layer of resilient material bases of glasses are adapted to be received and held in position, substantially as set forth. i i

3. In a tray for glasses, the combination with a base t and a layer of resilient material, such as felt, india-rubber and the like secured directly to said base, of an overlying tendency to expand. A

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plete c having slots in coirespondingly-oppobetween which and said layer of resilient inasite positions and long opposite edges, a lonterial, bases of glasses are adapted to be re gitudinal bei Z centrally disposed between oeived and held in position, substantially es said slots and connected respectively to the set forth. 5 base a and plete c, and resilient clamping de- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I5 vices f secured to the under side of the plate hand in presence of two witnesses. c at the opposite sides of each of said slots, ARTHUR LANGE. and having curved under edges and whose Vitnesses: maximum thickness is adjacent to the end of RUD. SCHMIDT,

IO the slot occupied by the stein of the glass, and PAUL E. SCHILLING. 

